[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]HEAT INDEX:[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]“Today’s high will be 98..but, it will feel like 105.â€[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Does it strike anyone, but me, as strange that those who are supposed to be as factual, scientific and analytical about things as meteorlogists, would be trying to tell us how we are going to feel about something? [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]It is extremely discomforting, to me, in several ways. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]First, as I say, meteorologists are supposed to study atmospheric phenomena by use of tools for measurement, data resultant from the measurements and possibly make some hypothesiis based on collected data. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Next, there is, and should be, NO WAY anyone can, or should, be able to predict how Anyone else is going to fEEl about something! Feelings are completely indiosyncratic. Even if someone tElls someone else “hOw†they fEEl, it doesn’t necessarily mean that their feelings are understood or, that that person’s feelings about the thing won’t change within the minute! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]To assume otherwise is okay, but, it is not journalism and it is cERtainly nOt meteorological! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Asking one billion people how they feel about something relative to some other thing, or things, gets us absolutely nO closer to knowing how the one billion and first person is likely to sAy they feel about it. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]That’s why feelings are feelings. They are deeply personal and not necessarily subject to change in any predictable way by any predictable set of circumstances or conditions! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Finally, the damned news media isn’t supposed to be telling us how we should feel about this or that, or, assuming that someone feels a certain way about it, based on observed behavior! They’re just supposed to tell us who, what, when, where and how. Maybe an occasional why. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Thanks. I feel better now. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]“Today’s high will be 98..but, it will feel like 105.â€[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]not[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Does it strike anyone, but me, as strange that those who are supposed to be as factual, scientific and analytical about things as meteorlogists, would be trying to tell us how we are going to feel about something? [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]4[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]It is extremely discomforting, to me, in several ways. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]First, as I say, meteorologists are supposed to study atmospheric phenomena by use of tools for measurement, data resultant from the measurements and possibly make some hypothesiis based on collected data. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]search[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Next, there is, and should be, NO WAY anyone can, or should, be able to predict how Anyone else is going to fEEl about something! Feelings are completely indiosyncratic. Even if someone tElls someone else “hOw†they fEEl, it doesn’t necessarily mean that their feelings are understood or, that that person’s feelings about the thing won’t change within the minute! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]To assume otherwise is okay, but, it is not journalism and it is cERtainly nOt meteorological! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Asking one billion people how they feel about something relative to some other thing, or things, gets us absolutely nO closer to knowing how the one billion and first person is likely to sAy they feel about it. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]engines[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]That’s why feelings are feelings. They are deeply personal and not necessarily subject to change in any predictable way by any predictable set of circumstances or conditions! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Finally, the damned news media isn’t supposed to be telling us how we should feel about this or that, or, assuming that someone feels a certain way about it, based on observed behavior! They’re just supposed to tell us who, what, when, where and how. Maybe an occasional why. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE= 10pt][COLOR= #333333]Thanks. I feel better now. [/COLOR][/SIZE]